On 7/7/06, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "Gaël" == Gaël Varoquaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gaël> On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 03:46:01PM -0500, John Hunter wrote: > >> Ideally, I would like to see PS, SVG, Agg and > >> [Tk|GTK|WX|Qt|FLTK]Agg and no more. But I know that other > >> people feel differently. > > Gaël> pdf seems very important to me. > > PDF is certainly an important document format, but it doesn't seem to > be widely used for figures. I often make pdf documents but > incorporate PNG figures into them (eg PDF latex). My backend list > above is not a list of backends that I think matplotlib should support > as much as it is a list of backends that I personally find useful and > would personally support even if noone else did. Any backend that is > supported by someone should remain in, even if they are the only one > using it, in my opinion. But most backends are not supported. > > Only PS and Agg (and by extension all of the GTK* backends) support > all of matplotlib's features. This should give some indication of how > much work it is to develop a fully compliant backend, and why we have > an incentive to minimize the number of them.
PDF has one important combination that neither PS nor png provide: vector (hence, resolution independent) images with proper transparency. I know SVG has that, but I don't know how well SVGs embed in PDFs (last I tried, I couldn't make it work satisfactorily). Cheers, f Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
